Oh nice, fellow Canadians doing the good work.

I would greatly prefer public sector development. I’m just being fatalistic about how our oligarchy conducts itself.

I like democracy, but I don’t like our short-sighted (4-8 year) election-campaign-based governing. But between our public and private sectors I know we can meet this challenge and make this happen.

Man, I wish we (Canada) were that ambitious. I know lemmy hates Elon Musk but I really admire his ambition in technical pursuits. I’m not saying we need more Elon Musks, but we should pursue more grand projects.

Should I remove my Agile experience from my resume?

Not if I completely stop using Google search.

I still want to know exactly what they’re talking about. But since they didn’t respond I assume they’re going on about nothing.

With sudo access? Can you suggest some? I did tons of research and rarely found anything less than $70/month.

I’ve been looking for a place to host web apps in whatever language (Rust, Nim, or whatever) and framework I want, where I can use my own domains and multiple apps, and have sudo access. And I don’t want to pay $70/month for it. I gave up on that hunt (it might have been unrealistic), although I’ll be researching some of the alternatives offered in these comments.

What was the nature of this hate speech? I don’t want to get involved with nazis.

I love kbin, never heard of mbin. Would you recommend mbin over kbin?

A VPS is also very expensive though. And shared hosting usually only allows HTML and PHP. So what’s the affordable alternative?

God, they’re poison. I literally paid for Windows.

I don’t think anybody ever believed any of those things.

Well that means it’s up to us to make it recognize non-DRY code and teach it to refactor while remaining coherent forever and ever, or else we’ll have to parachute into lands of alien code and try to figure out something nobody wrote and nobody understands.

Wow that’s a huge pay bump lol. Maybe I should also start studying those business needs more.

Yes your message is clear.

To answer your original question, I have no idea what it will look like when software writes and reviews itself. It seems obvious that human understanding of a code base will quickly disappear if this is the process, and at a certain point it will go beyond the capacity of human refactoring.

My first thought is that a code base will eventually become incoherent and irredeemably buggy. But somebody (probably not an AI, at first) will teach ChatGPT to refactor coherently.

But the concept of coherence here becomes a major philosophical problem, and it’s very difficult to imagine how to make it practical in the long run.

I think for now the practical necessity is to put extra emphasis on human peer review and refactoring. I personally haven’t used AI to write code yet.

My dark side would love to see some greedy corporations wrecking their codebase by over-relying on AI to replace their coders. And debugging becomes a nightmare because nobody wrote it and they have to spend more time bug-fixing than they would have spent writing it in the first place.

Edit: missing word

How do we currently incentivize developers to keep it DRY? Code review still exists.

If you use AI to generate code, that should always be the first draft. You still have to edit it to make sure it’s good.

You’ll teach yourself basic programming in waaaaaaaaaaaaaay less than 10 years, obviously.

You’ll teach yourself to be a much better programmer in 10 years.